http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/02/07/nyc.ipod.reut/index.html

because stupid assholes get killed while carelessly crossing the street while distracted from such things as IPODs. if you are that fucking retarded, you deserve to die.

Figures, they're going to waste more time and resources making sure idiots don't kill themselves...whatever happened to natural selection? I didn't know listening to an ipod prevented you from looking before crossing the street...maybe you're also invisible to people driving cars when you're using an ipod.

Figures, they're going to waste more time and resources making sure idiots don't kill themselves...whatever happened to natural selection? I didn't know listening to an ipod prevented you from looking before crossing the street...maybe you're also invisible to people driving cars when you're using an ipod.

probably cause they go so damn loud they figure you cannot hear the cars.

xanonymousx said:

no fucking shit, hahaha. im sure next on the list is banning cellphones. then they're going to implement the "buddy system" where they hire homeless people and illegal immigrants to hold your hands while you cross the street.

um havn't portable music devices been around for ohh i don't know 30 YEARS or so!!! why are they suddenly now causing all these problems.

How about they ban the cab drivers and soccer moms on cellphones that keep nailing pedestrians?

because you can't have fun...and if you do have fun, some idiot's gonna do something stupid involving what you do for fun, meaning that the government will have to step in and regulate it so more people don't die(people dying=less people dumping money into frivolous things like ipods to boost the economy)

that and the lawsuits stupid people will file:

"i was listening to my ipod and got hit by a car. it's macintosh's fault, the driver's fault, and the city's fault. how could they let me get hit by a car i wasn't paying attention to cause i was fiddling with my ipod?!"

i actually dont understand how people can listen to their music so loud that they can't hear whats going on around them. Me personally, i can't stand having my music up loud when i'm walking around. It just bothers me. I always feel like someone is behind me calling my name and i cant hear them. I just notice that im a little more jumpy and nervous when i have headphones on and having the music up loud just makes me feel uncomfortable. I like to keep it at a soft comfortable level so that i can still hear things around me.

^^^ good point

i get like that sometimes...other times i just want to drown everything out

actually funny story....i was walking around campus today and suddenly suffocation-funeral inception came on and i fucking love that song. so i turn it way up. and im standing outside this building and this guy walks up to me and says something and holds his hand out. so i'm thinkin "oh he want's a cigarette" and i'm usually nice about that so i pull out my cigarettes and hand him one. dude gives me a crazy look so i pause the song and go "what?" turns out he just wanted to know what the time was. well i felt like a complete and total ass.

dertoxia said:

Certain headphones don't allow you to hear anything while you're wearing them though, even if no music is plaing.

are you talking about the active noise cancelling ones or the isolating all ear ones? cause i believe that even with the noise cancelling ones there has to be sound going through them for the noise cancelling to work. From what i know about them, i guess they just play a static sound at a certain frequency to cancel out the outside sounds but i think that they have to be playing music for the canceling to be active. As for the full ear ones. If you care about the sound of your music that you dont mind looking like a complete doofus with gigantic headphones in public then more power to ya.

I just watched the news about this earlier. If Boston does this, you better be prepared for a huge protest.

I'll buy an ipod even faster now just to break any retarded new law pertaining to them...it's a marketing strategy I swear...

i've heard many stories of people getting hit buy trains while listening to music and walking on the tracks because they cant here the trains coming. They should make trains illegal.

for real...fuckin' trains, running around hitting people

Hearing about people who don't have the sense to not get his by a car while wearing an iPod reminds of when I was like 10 and my parents took the family camping at some state park in Virginia.

There were a ton of kids all hanging out at the lake and some of us decided to go for a hike through the woods. We came to a set of railroad tracks extending really far off into the distance in both directions. One of the kids, being a total genius, announces that he's going to find out if it's safe to be on the tracks and sticks his left ear to the rail to "listen for the train."

A minute or two later I notice a train coming from the left (probably about a mile away) and yell something like, "OH SHIT THE TRAIN!" Everyone else gets the message and falls back into the woods while Wilderness Tracker boy says, "SHHHHHH I'm trying to hear if a train is coming" I yell, " IT IS COMING!" and the douche freezes on the tracks before I start to drag him off by the back of his shirt.

So yes, trains were part of a very traumatic childhood experience of mine and should be banned.

you know, i take the train to and from work every single day, and never once have i had to ask "is that the train?" the rumbling in the distance is the dead giveaway, not to mention the fucking air horn.

Yeti said:

Then you weren't listening to the rail hard enough.